1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

To love beauty is to see light.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.